They [ISTJs] place great importance on honesty and integrity. They are "good citizens" who can be depended on to do the right thing for their families and communities.

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ISTJs tend to believe in laws and traditions, and expect the same from others.

Both are not necessary compatible, sometimes do the rigth thing doesn´t imply respect laws and traditions.(like when GrampaGeek choosed a woman with brains, or, if you like an example from literature, when Antigone barried her brother http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone_%28Sophocles%29)

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"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise. --Jumalauta!!

Yep, seems like a lotta INTJs. With Joe1962 in the INTJ camp, I am thinking that maybe programming is an INTJ kind of activity. I viewed the homepage of a programmer who mentioned she was INTJ; did some important work for IBM.